“I was trying hard not to fall asleep when the prosecution presented its case,” said former Tyco juror Jessica Friedman Grant, a recent law-school grad who said she would have voted to acquit ex-Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and ex-Chief Financial Officer Mark Swartz.

“I was waiting for the smoking gun, but they haven’t got one,” she said of prosecutors presenting the case in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Prosecutors have so far spent a month presenting evidence alleging Kozlowski, 56, and Swartz, 43, worked together to pillage their global company for $600 million, using stock fraud and unapproved bonuses and perks.

But Grant, who spent the last month as Juror No. 5 before being dismissed late Tuesday, said she believed the pair were innocent of all charges, including grand larceny and racketeering – charges that could get the pair 30 years of state prison time.

Grant was released from service because her brother worked in the same law firm as Kozlowski’s lawyers.

When she alerted the court to the link some weeks ago, she had claimed her family tie would not affect her judgment and was allowed to remain on the panel. Yesterday’s ejection appeared to have been prompted by prosecutors’ concerns that her ties to the lawyers could make her pro-defense.

Meanwhile, in court yesterday, prosecutors called their tenth witness, Patty Prue, Tyco’s former head of human resources.

Prosecutors charge Prue administered a top-secret, $95.9 million give-away devised by Kozlowski and Swartz three years ago to line their and their cronies’ pockets.

The pair got the lion’s share of the bounty – $33 million for Kozlowski, and $17 million for Swartz.

Prue herself was given a $1.2 million gift – after she questioned how such a “huge” outlay was possible and warned of possible morale problems.

Yesterday, Prue’s testimony suggested the pair lied to her that the give-away was approved by the then-head of Tyco’s board of directors’ compensation committee, Phil Hampton.